That makes sense in respect to the way the materials are being released (totally unstructured, uncoordinated and an an agonizingly useless form) and the fact that they primarily involve photos. Photos released without source or matadata allowing scientific study, many of which them (such as the Apollo images) not new at all and widely discussed previously. Which is a problem for the ‘we never got to the moon’ folks since now they have to reject images that could be argued as ‘when we made it to the moon the aliens were watching us’…..bummer.

If you want a view into what is seriously wrong with the government releases to date I suggest this https://www.explorescu.org/post/scientific-coalition-for-uap-studies-finds-pursue-release-1-falls-short-of-scientific-transparency

If you really want to know what is going in in the world of serious UFO research you should try this https://www.explorescu.org/

If you would prefer a deep dive into the current Government releases and my personal opinions on the matter you might check out the show I did with Chuck Ochelli this week: https://open.spotify.com/episode/53StRbi3aVWBwp4krqUtuo

And in anticipation, our team will have two books out with the first in September UFO Intentions / Decoding the Patterns and in February next year UFO Origins / What There Activities Tell Us. UFO Intentions is available for pre-order from many places including Amazon https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Intentions-Larry-Joe-Hancock/dp/1510787623

An d we are really pleased with an endorsement from one of our earliest readers:

Review

“By applying sophisticated intelligence community analytical techniques, often used in cases where the government does not have direct access to the target being studied, the authors have succeeded in generating important new insights about the scale and objectives of those controlling the mysterious UAP phenomenon. This approach offers important new insights about UAP that any serious student of the subject will want to understand. The authors have done us all a favor, one I hope the US government will itself carefully consider as this work surpasses the depth of analysis the government itself has produced regarding major trends in UAP behavior.” 

—CHRISTOPHER K. MELLON, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; Former Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

History has also shown the Russians to have been seriously concerned about such suspicions. Quick denials of any relationship with Oswald were made and in later years Soviet embassy personnel related being assigned to carry out a telephone call and meeting campaign with everyone they could influence to push the message of non-involvement – urgently, beginning the night of the assassination.

The simple fact that Johnson used the threat of war with such force (even talking with the head of the Atomic Energy Commission to get a number to quote in terms of forecast deaths from atomic warfare to use in his conversations) has tended to lean most JFK research away from the Soviets as true suspects. Yet Oswald had been in Russia, he certainly could have been under Soviet influence and Premier Khrushchev and the Russian military had been deeply embarrassed by the events of the Cuban missile crisis the previous year. On the face of it risking nuclear war over a motive as simple as personal revenge seems highly unlikely, but with high emotions some might have settled on that as an understandable motive, especially with the Cold War being at its height.

I’ve not explored the ‘Russia did it’ suspicion in my own work but recently Matt Crumpton asked me to come on his Solving JFK show and give it a deep dive based on David and my work on Lee Harvey Oswald. Matt asks great questions and led us into areas not often discussed these days. If it sounds of interest you can find his show here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recap-rebuttals-part-20-ep-90-94-soviet-union-with/id1652334113?i=1000766370682

Jeff Morley was good enough to have us on his show last evening for an extended discussion of just that – who knew what in New Orleans, at FBI HQ, CIA HQ, in D.C., in Miami, within the new Cuba Project (Special Affairs Staff) – and not just within official channels but within the old school social connections between vehemently anti-Castro (an in 63 virulently anti-JFK) communities in both New Orleans and Miami.

It was a great opportunity to cover those questions at length, allowing us to delve into just who withheld special knowledge about Oswald before the assassination – and lied about that knowledge during the investigations that followed.

It was also an opportunity for David to present his research – and organization charts – on JMWAVE and SAS and for me to offer some wild and crazy speculation in the live question and answer session (not all of which did get recorded due to time limitations).

In the end one thing becomes quite clear, a number of people had contemporary knowledge of Oswald circa September 1963, they were not sharing it with each other and they lied about that knowledge following the assassination.

The show is at this link and Jeff did have it most of it recorded, you will find the recording on this link https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/joannides-agent-confronted-oswald

This study integrates 1,000+ unexplained military and civilian reports and uses structured intelligence‑analysis methods to understand the UFO operational presence. It takes an intelligence analysis approach using pattern analysis to understand the operational behavior of the UFO/UAP operators.

Our assessments if UFO operations, as detailed and supported in the paper, include the following:

1. A sustained, disproportionate focus on atomic warfare infrastructure, implying an intelligent agenda and activity prioritization rather than broad‑area saturation of activities.
2. The near‑total absence of simultaneous multi‑site incursions across a 30‑year period, while the small number of atomic warfare sites received the majority of the UFO activity, this occurred in a staggered operation cadence, clearly reflecting an adaptive agenda,
3. Peak national waves (1952), (1957), (1964/5) (1975/75) saw an overall increase in reported incidents, across both atomic warfare, standard military and the public, but still did not show an overwhelming presence. The increase in reports was more likely due to an operational change that resulted in greater widespread visibility rather than a large increase in presence.
4. There was a definite shift towards the public during the 1960s and 1970s, with increases in public encounters coinciding with reductions in military encounters.
5. There was long‑term behavioral adaptation in UFO visiblity, including shifts from early overt displays and display type activity in the 1940s/ 1950s to low‑visibility night-time operations by the 1960s/1970s, suggesting engagement control.
6. There was exposure and visibility control, with craft illuminating themselves at distance yet extinguishing lights or evading interceptors at close approach, indicating both operational restraint and possible vulnerability or approach concern.
7. Craft lighting while not necessarily exclusively operational is more likely to be required by either craft (the operation of the craft) or by the task (required for the task) rather than overt display or communication attempt
8. Taken together, these indicators form a coherent operational profile: a modest, resource‑bounded presence conducting staggered reconnaissance rather than a large overwhelming presence, this is not a distributed force capable of broad parallel coverage.

In short our assessment is the operations presence and cadence does not reflect a large effort nor extensive recourses. – It’s what a resource‑constrained, centrally coordinated presence looks like. It’s targeted monitoring with adaptive behavior.

The behavioral coherence across decades — pacing, targeting, redeployment, visibility management — is most consistent with one centrally coordinated UFO mission, not multiple unrelated UFO operators. The behavioral footprint suggests a long-duration, low-footprint reconnaissance operation — consistent with actors operating far from home, under resource constraints, cautious and with strategic concealment.

This study does not claim definitive proof – it is an intelligence estimate the ‘most likely’ assessment of the situation, using a structure analytical approach to UFO/UAP Operational Presence. This paper follows the previous 4 papers on the US military focus, behavioral changes and intentions.. The full report is available at https://www.explorescu.org/post/uap-operational-presence-1945-197 as well as https://zenodo.org/records/16299623

That ‘context’ for that interest is in the form of connective tissue – which in the instance means a mix of document trails, joint operational histories, and social connections between key individuals. Its especially complex because our take is that both a potential, sanctioned CIA project and the emerging conspiracy against JFK evolved within those same connections.

Which makes it challenging to discuss in print, and in person. To deal with that we are doing interviews with several show hosts with long time histories exploring the Kennedy assassination. Given that everyone has their own preferences and their own favorites we will post them here and you can take your choice. The most recent is with Chuck Ochelli at this link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ochelli-ewffect-4-15-2026-larry-hancock-david-boylan–71357118

More should follow as the paperback edition becomes generally available next week, at the moment Amazon and a number of other book sellers are offering in for pre-order. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/oswald-puzzle-larry-joe-hancock/1146419018;jsessionid=5DDFEA4E1DA4194A8E09D80D1BA5D682.prodny_store02-atgap07?ean=9781510786899

https://bookshop.org/p/books/oswald-puzzle-reconsidering-lee-harvey-oswald-david-boylan/771435d2236b68be?ean=9781510786899&next=t&next=t&affiliate=1688

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Oswald-Puzzle-Reconsidering-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-Paperback-9781510786899/18511353334

Note: The paperback edition is available for pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/Oswald-Puzzle-Reconsidering-Lee-Harvey/dp/1510786899/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

But of equal importance are the New Orleans/Miami connections outside SAS, social and operational connections which had begun during the first Cuba project of 1959/60. Connections among the Cubans who volunteered for the fight against the Castro regime, individuals in organizations such as the Cuban Revolutionary Council organized to provide political support for that effort, volunteers who went on special missions into Cuba – and beyond them a much more close-knit group who had been actively working to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1963 on.  

In 1963 New Orleans, individuals from that anti-Castro milieu were involved in engaging Lee Harvey Oswald, even in contacting him under false pretenses as fellow travelers. Those individuals – all documented sources for both the FBI and CIA – are of special interest not only because of their knowledge of Oswald, but because there is evidence that they kept that knowledge to themselves, even lying about it.    

Which of course raises the question of who they did choose to share that knowledge with – exploring that question led David and I some definite thoughts on Oswald himself came to be manipulated into the position of ultimately becoming a patsy in the JFK assassination.

It’s a deep story, with a lot of names and details not part of the more common Kennedy conspiracy discussions.  Fortunately, David and I recently had a change to dig into it with Doug Campbell, someone with a deep interest into that group of Cubans and their associates.  It was a long conversation and we think an important one.  I’d encourage you to give it a listen:

Rex covers documents related to all three assassinations – JFK, MLK, and RFK – discussing the state of release in each area, as well as related declassification, and redaction issues.

He also gives ‘call outs’ on significant documents in each area, with links to the documents themselves.

Beyond that he explains how to use the MFF Explorer, likely the best search tool available for each of the record sets, all three sets of new releases now available on the MFF site.

The new section also includes a summary of the current state of declassification as well as on the state of the MFF legal action related to document releases.

Its all a really significant contribution to the overall document release process and I highly recommend giving it a good read.

The first thing coming up is the annual conference hosted by the Scientific Coalition for UAP studies. This year it will be held in Toronto in July and the conference will feature some of the major figures involved in the subject, including individuals who are well informed on what is going on with UFOs and the US government. You can find out the details at this link: https://explorescu.dm.networkforgood.com/emails/scu-2026-conference-on-uap-registration-hotel-rooms-7451c3fc-eb4b-41f1-9f21-05d0c6d08fad?hid=NTM2OTkyOTM=&utm_campaign=dms_email_blast_4541521

As to the state of affairs with UFOs, last week I was on Chuck Ochelli’s show and we caught up on what was going on both awith the government’s investigation as is currently being conducted by AARO: https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/UNCLASSIFIED-FY23_Consolidated_Annual_Report_on_UAP-Oct_25_2023_1236.pdf

As well as what is happening within the ‘private sector’ of UFO investigations: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ochelli-effect-3-18-2026-larry-hancock–70748768

And as for myself, the upcoming book by our SCU study team – UFO Intentions / Decoding the Patterns is now available on Amazon for pre-order, we just turned over the manuscript to the publisher and it should be available this coming October: https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Intentions-Larry-Joe-Hancock/dp/1510787623

The team is currently at work on a follow up book which will involve an in depth examination of UFO origins.

And if you were still wondering about those pesky drones over New Jersey, you might find this interesting: https://www.twz.com/air/what-cops-saw-chasing-down-jersey-drones-detailed-in-new-documents

No need to comment pro or con, just wanted to be on record with where I stand. Again…

I also happen to be a board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) and have been for several years. In conjunction with that I have been part of a team which has worked on the problem for over six years, published four extensive studies on UFO activity patterns and has a fifth coming up. We will have the first book on our work published this October – ‘UFO Intentions / Decoding the Patterns’.

I will be discussing the upcoming book in shows by this summer but in the meantime work goes on SCU will be holding its annual conference and if you are interested in getting a factual update on the state of UFO research, I certainly would recommend it. You can find out more about the conference here: https://mail.cityemail.com/webmail/?_task=mail&_caps=pdf%3D1%2Cflash%3D0%2Ctiff%3D0%2Cwebp%3D1%2Cpgpmime%3D0&_uid=225735&_mbox=INBOX.Trash&_safe=1&_action=show

And here: https://mailchi.mp/solveadvocacy.com/christopher-mellon-keynote-scus-2026-annual-conference-toronto-registration-now-opem?e=7958ce6d45

Of course UFOs are in the news a lot – so much so its hard to keep up with the facts about what is going on. The major media hardly ever to back to stories to do follow ups these days but if you were interested in the New Jersey Drones you might check this out: https://www.twz.com/air/what-cops-saw-chasing-down-jersey-drones-detailed-in-new-documents